Reading

Module 3: A War Between Us

In this module, A War Between Us, students are exposed to the many ways in which war affects people and the many consequences of war. We will read firsthand accounts and historical fiction to answer the question: How did the Civil War impact people?

Core Texts:

• “Hospitals and Medical Knowledge,” Civil War Preservation Trust
• “Amputation,” Civil War Preservation Trust Historical Account
• The Boys’ War, Jim Murphy Novel
• The River Between Us, Richard Peck Poetry
• “The Women Who Went to the Field,” Clara Barton

Class Art, Videos & Other Media:

• ▪ The Civil War, Episode 1: “The Cause,” Ken Burns
• “America Divided,” History.com
• “What Caused the Civil War,” Virginia Historical Society
• “Ford Model T—100 Years Later,” CarDataVideo
• “Compare Two Worlds: North vs. South 1861,” Scholastic.com
• “Slavery,” Scholastic.com

Books to Extend Learning at Home:

• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, James Swanson
• Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, Alexander Gardner
• Iron Thunder, Avi
• Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Rosemary Wells
• Bull Run, Paul Fleischman
• With Every Drop of Blood, James Collier and Christopher Collier
• How I Found the Strong, Margaret McMullan
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Rodman Philbrick
• Soldier’s Heart, Gary Paulsen
• Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis
• Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt
• On Enemy Soil: The Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier, Jim Murphy
• Civil War Stories, Ambrose Bierce
• Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, Henry Cole

PSSA Review & Test Taking Strategy Reminders